Why Apple Stopped Using Intel Chips

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You may’ve recently discovered that Apple stopped using Intel chips in their computers. Which is a bit surprising, given Steve Jobs praised Intel back in 2005. And what Jobs said was true, but that was almost two decades ago, and the relationship between Apple and Intel has been rocky.

[@AppleExplained]

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[@NobleGamer889]

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[@benjaminanddanielle]

Hi

[@eksmad]

@@NobleGamer889 You should never trust sponsorships/ads on KZbin and just assume from the beginning it's a scam.

[@PéterBorbás-r4y]

@appleexplained Can you please make a video about why chromebooks failed? Or about why apple switched to M series chips? Or why don’t iphones have M chips like ipads, if they’re better? Or why do ipad M chips have “more M’s” than macbooks?

[@Locutus]

Don't advertise anymore Fum vapes...

[@devsda1]

Yeah, I “recently discovered” this 4 years ago…

[@carlweston4808]

recently discovered? recently discovered? recently discovered?

[@DuesenbergJ]

Thank you for playing the engagement game. The algorithm will be pleased.

[@d33zknots88]

And?

[@mendodave]

I heard Apple makes an M1 chip!

[@rileyinbali]

No way!!! That's amazing! Is it x86 or Arm? ​@@mendodave

[@velociraptor5962]

90nm... and here we are talking about 2nm. wow.

[@betag24cn]

after 14, the name is what changes only no wow anywhere

[@dennyroozeboom4795]

@@betag24cn Well not exactly. It is more dense, the numbers just don't reflect actual measurements anymore.

[@betag24cn]

@dennyroozeboom4795 true, all you can do is look for benchmarks

[@slipoch6635]

@@betag24cn The hardest part is finding benchmarks that do not favour particular accelerations so you can get a true apples to apples comparison in a variety of workloads.

[@ryanboscoe9670]

I remember the 338nm days 😂

[@SteveMichael]

Another side benefit of switching to Intel back in 2006 was that for the first time it allowed people with Macbooks to run Microsoft Windows without emulation. This was huge and got a ton of people that were scared of trying a Mac to adopt one. Me being one of them that got a Mac Pro and had Linux and Windows VM's running at near native speed.

[@tino94]

Now we return to emulation due to the different architectures between x86 and ARM

[@VolkerHett]

Yes, this includes me! I bought the white Macbook with C2D because it won a test against a Sony Vaio of comparable weight and size. With Windows Vista it was faster than the Sony. Guess what, I never installed Vista on it.

[@paradoxzee6834]

One of the biggest downside using Intel was people saw Macs as just PCs with Mac OS. Many people just did not see as worth to pay more just to have a different OS. I remermber the debates back in the day are Macs PCs or not on online forums

[@tino94]

@@paradoxzee6834 By definition, Macs are computers, and they still are, regardless of whether you use PowerPC, Intel or Arm processors . They have the basic elements of a PC such as memory, storage, processing unit, input and output interfaces, There is nothing that a Mac has that differentiates it from a PC, only the Operating System, that is, Mac OS. The debate is silly as it has been tainted by a good "Mac vs PC" marketing strategy created by Apple. Which should actually be Mac vs Windows, since there are also other Operating Systems like GNU/Linux And yes, by that definition, smartphones are also computers.

[@everettputerbaugh3996]

Did anybody notice that Mac OS is based on a version of Unix, a Ma Bell development? Nice GUI, though.

[@lazyman2451]

I don’t know but my MacBook Air gets me through 12 hours of harsh work from onsite to remote work. It’s nuts how such a thin laptop can have such a performance and durability about 18 hours of use and still with 20% battery.

[@user-Old_Ben]

Apple - SoC, with the "M" chips is very power efficient. This is similar to iOS/iPhone - which was easier to start as a SoC design, because those devices had to run mostly on battery. SoC or system on a chip is running macOS (or Windows in emulation) on a chip... I love the versatility of the Intel style processors allowing greater compatibility and sometimes interesting or useful upgrade options. The newer A4 Macs look like a great value at this point.

[@smidgeondutchrabbit]

intel used to be able to make good processors but now they can only make hot plates

[@Joe-wk9ow]

This is what happens when you don't have coipition for the last decade or so and then you are hit in the face with AMD Ryzen. I think Nvidia is next as the power on the RTX 5090 is insane.

[@scottgfx]

Intel started making hotplates in 2000 with the Pentium 4. If my understanding is correct, they went back to the Pentium 3 and re-engineered it to become the "Core" line of chips.

[@OctavioGaitan]

I use an old Pentium 4 Prescott hot plate to cook hot dogs. LOL :P

[@tichaonanhlangano1426]

Man show his face hmm 2025 kicks off

[@auritro3903]

Chill man... it's winter. Someone needs to stay warm.

[@saifahmad1921]

Best decision they’ve ever made.

[@mr.dude1338]

agreed

[@gabrielreisinger8047]

Intel,AMD, and Qualcomm still can match the M series macs in single core performance.

[@alexcuevas5633]

the biggest reason why I and a lot of people are buying Macs now

[@Websurger]

@gabrielreisinger8047 Do they match performance per watt though?

[@jinraigami3349]

@gabrielreisinger8047 They couldn't. What they could compete is multicore peerformance.

[@CherryColaWizard]

Apple's chips are impressive. Fast and power effiecient, which is something Intel struggles to do. I just wish that Apple cared about making products that are easy to repair. Nobody wants to have to replace their laptop because the permanently attached SSD stopped working.

[@mwangidanson2615]

In a capitalist world, thats a double profit opportunity.

[@CherryColaWizard]

@@mwangidanson2615 Sad, but true

[@DragonsinGenesisPodcast]

The SSD are now easily replaced. So the thing you wish they had, they now have.

[@CherryColaWizard]

@@DragonsinGenesisPodcast That's good news. Let's hope they continue to do this for all of their products

[@narrativeless404]

That's not because of Apple being good at it. It's just because of how inefficient and bloated(like Windows 11 lel) x86 architecture is. If Intel were to make an ARM chip, they wouldn't be any worse than Apple.

[@itsokayrozay]

You and Brandon Butch have a competition on who has the best news anchor voice 😂😂😂

[@kevikiru]

21:44 The A4 wasn't introduced with iPhone 4, it was introduced with the original iPad. In fact, the A4 in the iPhone was significantly downclocked. Small detail though...awesome documentary. Edit: Another small detail...when you say that they did not have to pay their chip surplier, it doesn't make sense. Maybe what you mean is that they did not have to pay for the margins of an off the shelf chip. They still had to pay Arm to licence ArmV7 ISA, they had to pay Samsung to manufacture the chips, and they had to pay licensing fees to Imagination Tech. for GPU designs.

[@dlnishantabhishek2815]

Samsung doesn't manufacture chips it's TSMC

[@KrisiCrossi]

@@dlnishantabhishek2815 they actually DO make their own chips but do partner with TSMC for the phones (for Example They put their own chips in the non american S20s named "Exynos")

[@MikeinAustin]

@@dlnishantabhishek2815Samsung doesn’t manufacture the ARM chips for Apple. They do for others.

[@EddieStarr]

Apple announced the A4 in January 2010, and Steve Jobs confirmed the iPhone 4 would use it in June 2010. The A4 was also used in the first-generation iPad, fourth-generation iPod Touch, and second-generation Apple TV. I was there the day it was announced.

[@triadwarfare]

​@@dlnishantabhishek2815They used to manufacture chips with Samsung until their lawsuit that Samsung was copying Apple, hence, the year after that, they made an exclusivity contract with TSMC and had first dibs on new nodes.

[@OKZ15]

Apple Explained's face showing is such a weird concept to me. But I think I like it.

[@copyer9088]

He’s done it before are you new to this channel?

[@YahmahaR7]

Looks like AI

[@squeakyfoxx]

@@YahmahaR7 not really

[@FruityKoala]

It almost kind of looks ai. Could just be a high frame rate or something though. But the voice does sound off

[@alexejvornoskov6580]

It looks like the channel was hijacked, because i dont remember that videos on that channel used to spread so much BS before. Its his second video of his that i saw recently after long time of not watching(and before i only watched very vew on topics that were interesting), but both of the recent videos came with very obvious bs, thinking that the viewer are dumb or Apple a$$ licking, that wasnt there before. That used to be pretty okay channel, now its just...

[@PaxAlotin]

As an Ex Apple user who has been a consumer since 1984 - it's interesting to look back at all the changes. I still like Apple - so don't get me wrong - but thing is - after 40 years of using home computers - I moved over to Linux & have no regrets.

[@Pearloryx]

Dude, you don't have to buy an Apple product to like Apple. Everyone has their choices and preferences.

[@IgorsPlay]

I’m really glad they did, M chips are fantastic! 🎉

[@chillinwithluis]

Damn right!

[@tzacks_]

sure they are, 99% of them is used for office type workload.

[@IgorsPlay]

@ You are mistaken, 99.9% of them are used for creative work.

[@tzacks_]

@@IgorsPlay these days every cpu has hw video encode, 3d accelerator.. so yea, office type.

[@ElectricSmurf]

It’s amusing to see many Apple haters stating Apple never invents anything, they just copy…yet they have the fastest domestic/private computers in the world built with chips that they designed and built lol

[@concertvids34]

I literally was frying an egg as part of breakfast for dinner when you used the analogy of a computer chip being so hot you could fry an egg on it.

[@WSK9002]

Being a kid of the 1990's, I never thought Intel would be declining and PC manufacturers would go elsewhere, but almost nothing stays the same.

[@thecapone45]

That’s how I felt when I found myself returning a PC laptop in favor of a Mac mini because… The Mac Mini was cheaper and faster… To say that someone is saving money by going for a Mac is not something I thought I’d say or hear but here we are.

[@farhanrejwan]

"all shall fall" that's the rule of the world.

[@iwilitu6591]

This why I'm wondering what will replace apple in a decode or two when their downfall inevitably happens

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

Segue - You have to wonder what AMD is planning ! They are kicking Intel's butt on performance/watt and their latest 9000 series show that when they turn up the power they get outstanding performance.

[@thecapone45]

@ SAME!

[@DavidRavenMoon]

It should be notated that ARM was founded as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology. Acorn provided 12 employees, VLSI provided tools, Apple provided a US$3 million investment (equivalent to $7 million in 2023). Larry Tesler, Apple VP was a key person and he helped recruit the first CEO at the joint venture, Robin Saxby. Apple had been using Acorn’s Archimedes in the Newton.

[@TheEulerID]

No, Apple did not use the Archimedes in the Newton device, or anything else for that matter. Archimedes was a line on Acorn computers, not a processor architecture. That was always called ARM, and used to power the Archimedes, but then stood for Acorn RISC machine, and was originally developed by the company on a shoestring with a tiny handful of engineers. When the Acorn Archimedes got steamrollered by the PC architecture, the processor business was split off and targeted at the mobile market due to its astonishingly low power consumption, and Acorn RISC machines became Advanced RISC Machines, which was where that critical Apple investment came in with the use of the ARM processor architecture in the Newton device. Ironically, Newton failed in the market, but the ARM processor became wildly successful and Apple divested themselves of their share in ARM as they were in desperate need of the capital. Nb. by coincidence or not, Isaac Newton was a professor from Cambridge, and Acorn and, therefore ARM was founded in that hat university city.

[@felipe367]

@@TheEulerIDimagine if Apple had kept their share of ARM 😊

[@TheEulerID]

@@felipe367 Then it might not have been so successful. Those in the mobile appliance market would not have been keen on being reliant on IPR and licenses granted by a company which was in large part owned by a competitor. It's especially lucky that it didn't happen as Apple's track record on trying to block out competitors and seeking to use its IPR as means of doing so is not great. ARM, majority owned by Softbank does not really compete with its own customers, and when Nvidea tried to buy ARM it caused major competition concerns by both the company's customers and regulators in the UK, USA and EU. Besides which, Apple were in a desperate way at the time. The needed the money.

[@kurt9395]

@@felipe367 During the late 90's - early 2000's, if you followed Apple's financial reports, they would regularly report sales of their seemingly bottomless pit of ARM shares. The reason was most likely to bring their numbers up to Wall Street analyst expectations.

[@PassiveSmoking]

Basically Intel's inability to innovate to Apple's liking caused them to look at alternatives before realising they already had one in the form of their iPhone ARM processors that would be more than powerful enough if scaled up a bit. And yeah, Intel's refusal on collaborating on the iPhone will probably go down in history alongside Blockbuster laughing Netflix out of the office as one of the worst calls in the tech industry's history even if at the time it looked like a sensible decision.

[@jesfel14]

Add Yahoo knocking back offers from Google and Microsoft to the list.

[@Bewefau]

they used last gen intel chips lol

[@oakspines7171]

Not an easy job for Apple to switch HW and all the corresponding ecosystems. They did it. Apple is an innovative and successful company, and the market rewards it accordingly.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

it was the board who rejected it. the intel ceo was all for it if i recall. back in the day i was heavily in the microsoft partner program and back then the arrogance of the power of "winTel" was staggering. time and time again intel missed every market opportunity. the strategy was - add more extensions. keep x86 running along. node shrink. considering how AMD dont have an ARM cpu on the lineup also makes me a little worried for AMD. the x86 landscape is getting smaller and the ARM landscape dominates. Just look how much bigger Qualcomm are than AMD

[@jesfel14]

@ I can see AMD doing it if the hand is forced.

[@devcybiko]

20:32 Commodore owned their own chip manufacturing company, MOS Technology, Inc., which they acquired in 1976. MOS Technology was instrumental in creating some of the most iconic chips of the era, including the 6502 processor, which powered many early personal computers such as the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, and of course, Commodore’s own computers. Under Commodore, MOS Technology developed custom chips that gave their machines a competitive edge. For example: 1. The VIC-II - Graphics chip for the Commodore 64. 2. The SID (Sound Interface Device) - Famous sound chip in the Commodore 64. 3. The 6510 CPU - Used in the Commodore 64, a variant of the 6502. Owning MOS Technology allowed Commodore to reduce costs by vertically integrating their chip production, which was a significant advantage in the competitive home computer market of the 1980s. This strategy contributed to the affordability and success of systems like the Commodore 64.

[@Bewefau]

Jack Tramiel :D "yes your a business of course you want to make money but you don't need to make a stupid amount of money"

[@mrrolandlawrence]

if i recall right. the 6502 was the last ever cpu to have layout done by hand.

[@csjakat]

And when Amiga Prototype was shown to Steve Jobs he said "Too much hardware!". I guess he was not a big fan of custom chips back then.

[@riseofthethorax]

Thanks!In essence Apple custom designs their chips to address the needs of the platform, users and the applications.. And I agree.. oh and thanks for talking about the power pc line, I had wondered what had happened with that.. Part of the selling point of those PC's was that Apple could have custom hardware emulations at suitable speeds on native hardware... The capacity to run windows and macos on the same computer,

[@phfnz]

can i also have $1.99 😢

[@whophd]

10:50 I was attending the keynote that year, and in the days that followed, with after-parties every night in San Francisco, word was getting around that Steve made this announcement against the wishes of IBM. Apparently they weren't willing to stick their necks out for "3 GHz", but he stuck their necks out for them. In fact the IBM engineers were saying there's no way they'd reach that speed in 12 months, and were only promising around 2.5 GHz, which is exactly what happened. When you think about it, "the Osborne effect" was exactly the sort of thing you try to avoid, especially when the memory of Osborne's mistake was fresh in the 1990s and 2000s. So the fact that Steve directly counteracted the golden rule of the Osborne effect, the rule of not pre-announcing next year's technology while announcing this year's technology, meant that something must have really been up.

[@ONE_GEN_X]

I usually don’t like long videos but this was great information and you kept it moving very well. I appreciate it

[@asaeed86]

He could’ve just said that people installed windows instead of macs and it would’ve taken less than a minute but that won’t get any monetization

[@SeverusBlue]

Great video but you completely left out the ipad - think that would’ve been relevant since M1 is a modified A12Z.

[@Ad-skip]

01:31 ad skip

[@beyondmemoX5]

Thank you

[@Ad-skip]

@@beyondmemoX5 You're welcome

[@UserfeedbackbyTea]

130-90nm is wild... In a world where 5nm is seen as old tech and 3nm is the standard... How far we have come

[@jonathanruiz8723]

It’s actually more like >13nm but still impressive! Node sizes since the late 90’s are mostly a marketing gimmick and not representative of the actual minimum feature size of a transistor. The figure is now derived from the performance gains realized from improved semiconductor topology. That or the marketing team just throws out a number that is lower than last time .

[@XashA12Musk]

@@jonathanruiz8723 you mean if TSMC get performance of 2 nm node from 4nm revised node than they can call it 2nm node?

[@jonathanruiz8723]

​@@XashA12Musk Correct... kind of... It's really mostly marketing. For example Intel's 10nm node technically has higher transistor density than TSMC’s 7nm node. The figure did originally match the minimum gate length of a given process' transistors but it hasn't since the mid 90's (My original 2008 guesstimate was off by over 10 years). Most of the gains nowadays are from placing transistors closer together and effective usage of 3D space, rather than just decreasing transistor size. Hence all the hot chips lately.

[@AchyutChaudhary]

*Bro…I appreciate your long-form-style content, but can you also please continue your to-the-point quick explainer videos, and your frequent macOS/ iOS update series please :)*

[@Zellzoi]

I love these videos

[@IonasalPreciel]

Personally, I like the long form videos much more.

[@boba7039]

No, this is NOT the worst time in Intel's history. The worst time was when Intel was primarily a memory company and had just started making CPUs. The Japanese where also making memory chips and they started to sell them below cost to gain market share. Gorden Moore and Andy Grove knew that they could fight it out with Japanese and probably lose or they could transition to something else. Which was the move to a CPU company. Andy Grove called this a strategic inflection point and wrote a highly regarded book about it. If you look at the graph the was shown at 27:27 in the video it shows Intel taking market share from AMD in 2024. Intel Luner Lake CPU's and Arc B580 striking the perfect balance between performance, price, and software reliability. They are currently on sale shows the turn around has already begun! By the middle of 2025 Intel will be in high volume manufacture with their 18A process (1.8nm) while TMSC will be producing 2nm chips. The 18A process also includes RibbonFET gate-all-around transistor architecture (improves density and performance versus FinFET) and PowerVia backside power technologies (improves standard cell utilization by 5-10% and ISO-power performance by up to 4%) which TMSC does not have. Look for Nvidia, Apple, AMD and others moving from TMSC to the Intel foundry in the future.

[@AchyutChaudhary]

*Next video idea:* who’s the best  Apple leaker! Mark Gurman, Ross Young, Jon Prosser, Ming-Chi Quo, etc…

[@aptiveviennapro]

Who is Ming-Chi Quo?

[@BrokenBonesRBLX]

Their leaks are always fake and filled with misinformation.

[@miroslavmilan]

Ming who?

[@BrokenBonesRBLX]

@@AchyutChaudhary their leaks are always inaccurate

[@PaulReitman-x5j]

strange vid... i was an IBM PC dev in the 80s, and it was a different world for sure. I just installed an apple mini with the M4 chip, and it's light years ahead of the olden days. This tiny box blows me away re: power consumption and performance. Everything up until 2022 was misery on a board, but now everything is buttery smooth across the entire line of Apple PCs.

[@mijmijrm]

i'm still getting over Apple giving up on the 6502

[@markteague8889]

😆🤣

[@protox07]

Have a happy new year Apple Explained

[@anthonykoller4459]

I had a Intel MacBook and when I changed over to the M series, I was amazed how fast they are and the battery last for ages and more importantly no more fan noise

[@TomJones-tx7pb]

And now I use an M4 mini, and my M1 laptop feels slow!

[@jriver226]

TSMC doesn't create their own arm chips, they are a foundry. They make chips for others.

[@timothymarks6992]

I like all your videos, but will you post more of your 2-3 minute short videos explaining things like what's new in iOS 18.2 or rumors about upcoming apple products or something like that? Still enjoy all your videos, they're good quality content.

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

My "hazy" crystal ball says, beside improving "instruction per clock" (difficult) and cranking up the clock speed (also difficult) the only way to improve performance is larger on-chip caches. DDR6 is still a dream and years away. Higher clocking DDR5 are coming out. I am still surprised that no one is using ECC for off-chip memory !

[@Samsgaming310]

Yeah… this isn’t “Recent” at all as this has been out for a couple years now/

[@jaydubya9265]

More than a couple

[@whophd]

13:46 bit unfair to compare the Pentium I to the PowerPC G3. Surely the better comparison would be Pentium III with PowerPC G3, or Pentium I with PowerPC G1 (e.g. 601 or 604).

[@ivanmaglica264]

Moore's Law is, first and foremost, despite the name, an observation. Not even consensus. So there was no violation.

[@BradHouser]

So true, and it is amazing that Moore's predictions were made on something like four generations of technology. That it has lasted this long is incredible. It provided a roadmap that semiconductor equipment manufacturers could help fulfill a sticking to a technology drum beat of sorts.

[@TheFPSChannel]

Great video (as usual) I like the addition of you on camera… and I LOVE the fact that you opted to drop the repetitive music track in behind the video. So, so much better this way. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@darthslackus499]

As a Windows user for 20+ years this is why I switched to the M4 mac mini. Intel and MS can have the 'finger' from me. Though Apple still gets the 'finger' from me for being a too tightly closed ecosystem.

[@masar-at]

Same

[@sleeptodreamx]

how do you like it so far? macOS isn’t really a closed system i’d say, just iOS, which is good imo considering their stance on privacy i don’t particularly want my phone with GPS, mics, cameras, etc that i have with me at all times to be an open system. there’s little to gain for the loss in security (though people still blow it by installing social media apps and giving them mic and camera access lol)

[@darthslackus499]

@sleeptodreamx MacOS is absolutely a closed ecosystem system. If it weren't, we have more Linux natively running on Apple silicon. Even the m3 & m4 can't run Linux natively.

[@chrispapanastasopoulos9192]

@@darthslackus499You are interchanging the Apple hardware and software in your comment. Confusing.

[@rainwatertea]

One of the BEST narrators on YT

[@salteveline]

the WINNER here is TSMC - it has been manufacturing Processors designed by Apple, nVidia, AMD .. 😄

[@Bewefau]

And China wants it.

[@NCHLT]

Mediatek and Qualcomm too, even intel I think

[@jeffevarts8757]

Great video. Great use of the advertisenents & presentations. Great technical details, and as far as I could tell, you got em all RIGHT, which is rare

[@D.von.N]

Not an apple person and had no knowledge about this, but I have noticed the terrible performance of intel's 13th and 14th gen processors.

[@Bewefau]

yeah they know it was a thing I think they tried to fix it with update.

[@DavidSmith-dm8ew]

Intels new cpu's are even worse then the 13 and 14th

[@NCHLT]

Ah yes, the processors with a near 100% failure rate within a year

[@DolapoAmusan]

Watching this on my Apple Silicon M1 powered Macbook. The M1 was such a revolutionary laptop chip especially for tech enthusiasts in Nigeria for it's exceptional power management. Start the day with a full battery and you are free to stay unplugged till nightfall! It gave incredible mobility to the tech worker's life. It's so good I know friends who have not needed to upgrade in the last 4 years since it was introduced.

[@nicholashennessy4543]

And Intel has no one else to blame but themselves. They were the best on the market for good reason back when Steve was still around, even into the 2010s. Intel at a point got comfortable and stopped innovating, then in a rush to fend off the AMD Zen architecture, they produced flawed products that drew way too much power and produced too much heat. Apple was very smart to pull out when they could.

[@louiswilliamterminator2887]

they were also incredibly arrogant, bullying and greedy. Probably criminal too

[@Bewefau]

No it was Meltdown and Spectre that did them in.

[@bryanwoolbertmusic]

Amazing and informative. Thank you. Well done

[@apa5749]

Apple Silicon is such an amazing breakthrough. Apple is the only company that has managed to disrupt the AMD-Intel x86-64 duopoly in the market. consumers didn't realize how terrible mobile computers are with x86-64 chips. Apple Silicon is proven to be so great that Qualcomm just started to make their own laptop-grade ARM64 chips with Snapdragon Elite series. and guess who was involved there? Gerard Williams, the former CPU engineer of Apple who made the A series chips, i think he was involved in designing the M1 too. but there's something that still doesn't make sense to me. it's the existence of Apple Silicon Mac Pro. it's a high end consumer grade workstation. the whole appeal of a Mac Pro has always been self-upgradability while the whole appeal of Apple Silicon is performance per watt and long lasting battery on Macbooks. people who buy this grade of computers don't care about power efficiency, they just want performance. self-upgradability is not possible with Apple Silicon, you can't upgrade the memory or the graphics. once you got an Apple Silicon Mac Pro then the only thing you can add is just the PCIE expansions so an Apple Silicon Mac with a case that big doesn't make sense.

[@ikeman1972]

This video is exceptionally well-produced and informative. I eagerly anticipate your future videos, particularly those of this nature, as they are both engaging and educational.

[@bemacbe]

The pie chart at 10:09 says laptops made up 64% of Mac sales in 1981. This is TOTALLY wrong. Consider this - the first Macintosh Portable computer was introduced in 1989. 😂

[@njerurichard3581]

25:00 They wanted to build the fastest, most efficient computer possible -while remaining reasonably affordable- .

[@betamax1091]

and thank goodness they did. I no longer have a room heater / Macbook Pro.

[@IOOISqAR]

When Apple asked INTeL for a smartphone processor, the ARM-architecture was not set. Instead, using ARM was a result of INTeL denying the processor built.

[@DankyMankey]

I didn’t know they used to call building a PC “cloning an IBM” in the 90’s

[@mendodave]

Yep IBM clone. I had several of those. Even built a few myself.

[@ronjon7942]

Yea - department stores like Sears, KMart, JC Penney’s, they even used the term in their marketing and in the stores, while also featuring the IBM PC.

[@gooseknack]

Because many were literally "clones" or a carbon copy. This was possible because IBM's original PC system was an open architecture system. This was done to encourage third party peripheral manufacturers to make peripherals. The result, was IBM Clones. Others, they did the right thing and created "IBM Compatible Computers". These were different from IBM's system, but compatible with IBM software and peripherals.

[@Bewefau]

IBM was king 20k computers in the 80's woot woot. 8088 chip's. Your keyboard layout ? IBM baby

[@BradHouser]

While it was easy to duplicate the hardware, the IBM PC BIOS firmware was copyrighted, so Compaq had to reverse-engineer its own compatible BIOS. They were successful, and the acid test of compatibility was if it could boot Flight Simulator, which at the time before MS bought it was a bootable disk. Some clone makers were not as good at creating a fully-compatible BIOS and failed the FS boot test. Eventually companies like Phoenix Technologies created "clean room" copies that were licensed to manufacturers. IBM later realized it made things too easy to duplicate so they came out with the PS/2 architecture, which had to be licensed by other manufacturers. No one wanted the PS/2 as it was not any better.

[@theredrighteye]

I think our bro lagged by making this video like the intel chips.

[@gregoryhouse7140]

I am from Poland, I use Mac Mini M2 Pro, and MacBook M1, after switching from Itel I felt the power of the computer, it is a technological abyss. Although Apple M1 is not the first ARM computer, but only now people are ready. The first computer in ARM technology was ACORN called ARCHIMEDES, in 1985. Greetings from Poland.

[@Bewefau]

with no backwards compatibility

[@chrispapanastasopoulos9192]

@@Bewefauhaha backwards

[@HairyDalek]

ARM processors are not “in their infancy” - they’ve been around since the 1980s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family

[@NightSky360]

Best move for Apple developing the M line of chips. I just got the Mac Mini M4 and its the fastest computer I've ever owned.

[@metyaricioglu9077]

the best explanation of apple switching of M chips 👏🏻 congratulations

[@nixl3518]

Thanks for a great analysis! Though I knew all this in general terms, the way you presented it was crisp, concise and to the point! It was so dry that I was shocked at the sudden ending.😊

[@swschilke]

That video could have been 5-10 minutes long

[@beginlinuxguru7354]

I disagree. It's fine as-is.

[@Que.96]

I think the only significant downside of the change to M1 is losing the ability to dual boot with Windows and Mac Os. Haven't used the most recent chips but i dont think the change made for a more versatile PC

[@Gaisenberg]

Dude, where's your signature music?

[@Pearloryx]

Yeah I kinda miss it, probably because he doesn’t have to add awkward cuts with the videos illustrating about the chip situation.

[@thecapone45]

I don’t miss it… I used to binge his videos and the same song over and over would get on my nerves…

[@openmarkand]

would be silly in a so long video

[@1971VoiceoftheMummy]

Very informative! Nice work!

[@LivingAdventurousLee]

I have an intel MacBook Pro for my work and a M4 MacBook Pro for my video editing computer. The comparison is just unmatched!

[@Bewefau]

you people do realize that intel in any mac is old as hell right ? Even when you bought the thing brand new it was still old as hell....

[@LivingAdventurousLee]

@ of course I understand. I bought that thing brand new back in 2016. 8 years old. I mainly use it for excel and PowerPoint for work. I’m just saying the contrast between the 2 is just insane. I’m simply stating the fact.

[@flexairz]

@@LivingAdventurousLee Correct, but some can not handle facts.

[@jerelull9629]

I used an early Compaq "portable" -- It was luggable, but had to be plugged in to work, and floppies formatted by Compaq didn't register on IBM computers, and vice versa. Formatting the floppies on my Mac at home worked for both sides of the "compatible divide".

[@SimonBauer7]

25:45 on the laptop Market. Desktop still has the ryzen 9 7950x3D. and dont forget about the threadripper 7995WX.

[@akyhne]

The Threadripper is not a desktop CPU. It's a workstation CPU.

[@StevenSSmith]

​@@akyhneI beg to differ

[@akyhne]

@@StevenSSmith So, you don't know what a workstation is?

[@StevenSSmith]

@@akyhne how do you say "I have autism" without saying "I have autisim"

[@akyhne]

@@StevenSSmith Say you don't know anything about computers, without saying you don't know anything about computers.

[@BrandonCarraway91]

1:28 the worst part of this is: if your phone is carrier locked, you can’t add esims. Carrier locks usually are placed if you are financing you phone through your phone bill, and will generally lift shortly after you pay off your phone.

[@obscuracamaria2931]

Waiting for a video on the Siri lawsuit

[@Nathan15038]

I mean, definitely seeing you sitting from a mic talking on Apple Explained is weird, but I’m all for it😂

[@HeyNiagraFalls]

Thank you, Greg.

[@GregMoress]

(looks around) Umm... You're welcome.

[@scene2much]

From inside Intel, there was absolutely no comprehension how 14nm and 10nm could not be delivered at pace. They just hit the wall. Horrifying that with all the focus and shame and smell of a failure, as the delays mounted....the delays could not be ended. I'd love to hear the details on the 14nm and 10nm yield fails.

[@JesseJones-nv3vd]

Apple’s M Chips are really great, but it is very stupid that Apple couldn’t add a Bootcamp now, because Microsoft did add an ARM-based iso for Windows 11. If Windows now supports ARM, why can’t Apple have Bootcamp again?

[@bandito241]

There a couple of reasons but the big one is that you can’t just get an ISO and install Windows on ARM on a computer by default.

[@JesseJones-nv3vd]

@@bandito241 I was able to install it into UTM, which supports ARM based architectures. How did they do it back in the Bootcamp days? Did they go into Recovery mode and install it there?

[@MrTelfs]

This video has me looking up old apple WWDC events. They way Steve Jobs talks is truly captivating

[@aptiveviennapro]

Now is the reverse.

[@TheHoodGuru]

Dude that was a great video explainer. Took me back to the hackintosh days. Explained why it all came around in the 2006 timeframe. I went into an Apple store the other day to trade in one of my M1 Mac Minis and got a M4 mac Mini and the guy saw all my hackintoshes on my apple ID.

[@AchyutChaudhary]

*Quick video idea:* how much CPU, GPU, Neural Engine cores, Unified memory & SSD storage do you need (& how they matter)?

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

If YOU have to ask, then just get a Macbook Air. A Pro user already knows how much power they need in a laptop to benefit their workflow.

[@sleeptodreamx]

@@PSYCHOV3N0M yep, it’s nice that we’re at that point in technology where even the base model computers can do anything you throw at them (except gaming, but again gamers know what they need too lol)

[@thetypebeast]

Apple's PowerBook sales _was not_ 64% in 1981, as the first Macintosh was released in 1984. The first PowerBook was released in 1991. The G5 chip launched in 2002, so is the pie chart supposed to be 2001 Macintosh sales?

[@paulcarter7445]

What is Apple doing about its embarrassing "GoFetch" unfixable security flaw in the M1, M2 and M3 chips ?

[@chrispapanastasopoulos9192]

That be the M4

[@paulcarter7445]

@@chrispapanastasopoulos9192 that doesn't help M1, 2 and 3 users.

[@FennecTECH]

Im watching this on an M1 iPad Pro 12.9. 3 years on. Its still screaming fast and even got apple intelligence

[@jenovaizquierdo]

This is a great video! It's unfortunate that Samsung isn't using its own CPUs globally.

[@CyPheR_N]

Well, they are trash hotplates🦦

[@jenovaizquierdo]

@ 🤣😂 one time they did and that in Samsung Galaxy 6

[@boyo2012]

What a beautiful and well crafted history breakdown of Apple and their overall chip decisions. One of your best videos; great start to 2025!

[@KomradZX1989]

25:09 REASONABLY AFFORDABLE?!? Maybe it is if you’re in a higher tax bracket, but for us PLEBS… Mac’s prices will always be well out of reach 🖕

[@u1233ma]

Maybe don’t be a pleb

[@KomradZX1989]

@ maybe don’t be a dick 🤣

[@StevenSSmith]

The problem is the limitation of programs available on PC not being on Mac

[@You-ike]

0:48 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓱 𝓷𝓸 𝓴𝓲𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰

[@thetypebeast]

Really great to watch tech and business change over time. Thanks for the vid!

[@danielgartin-oh9ik]

I still have an Intel chip in my MacBook Air, it’s the 2017 model but I still have macOS Sequoia on my computer,I used OpenCore Legacy Patcher to do that

[@lukesdoings7150]

I just did this for my 2014 MacBook Pro. Works great on Sequoia!

[@JustherefortheLOLZ]

I gave up on OCLP.. not worth it.

[@ronjon7942]

I’ve an I7 in my 12” Mac Retina, love it. I’ll easily use it til 2030 - probably way past that.

[@PSYCHOV3N0M]

​@@ronjon7942 Buy a M series Macbook. It's literally a night and day difference in performance and battery life vs any Intel Macbook. Thank me later.

[@Jammie6000]

On My Mid 2013 MacBook Air, Sequoia Runs Slow.

[@Mike-uy7ph]

Those snippets vids are nice but I feel like they were a little too much today, great informative video regardless ❤❤

[@Dan-vu3vt]

Brother this video is 4 years late

[@ednan9]

Right

[@rajpanda5065]

Not really . 4 years give you good idea about the impact the chip made too. Like google and Microsoft manufacturing their own chips

[@jfroines]

I think the very important key to both the PPV-Intel and the Intel-AppleSIlicon translations being so successful (IE- not so hard that existing Mac users switched to Windows rather than deal with it) was the Rosetta/Rosetta2 translation layers that made the old software work on the new computers pretty seamlessly. The interesting thing to me there is that given how involved both versions of Rosetta are/were, it means Apple had those in development for a long time prior to the eventually CPU transitions. Who knows what other CPU architectures they have kernel support for and a new Rosetta layer for right now in secret development, "just in case"?

[@Frosttyskky]

Bro is out of ideas so bro started making long videos💀

[@alexcastas8405]

Great video bro it would have taken some time to put together and find the footage 👌 … I like watching Jobs and his honesty in those early videos, admitting we’re changing and adapting to something else because it’s better.

[@robertsteel3563]

Long time no see with the face to face conversation Type Video!!

[@Cosmetic_Astro]

The fact my Macbook Air M3 can perform so well with modern games and apps blows my mind, I have a 8GB model since I got it before the buff. I will always be a huge fan of apples steps to success and their amazing hardware in their products!

[@pratronald]

25:09 Affordable?!

[@10p6]

Interesting video. However apple had interest in xScale Arm chips by Intel at one point, the same chips used in Pocket PC for 4 years before iPhone.

[@BradHouser]

Things could have been much different if Intel had made X-Scale processors for Apple. Big mistake for Intel.

[@matthewhafner962]

25:21 I respect this video as a factual essay on describing why Apple switched to making it's own processor, but please don't lie. The AMD R9 9950X is the fastest consumer processor in the world.

[@UrAvgMike]

recently? didn't this happen in 2020?

[@mywwwow]

Thank you very much to show all those backgrounds of decades in just a few minutes. 😊🎉 It’s fascinating to me. 😊

[@moominboobin1594]

almost 30 minutes for this topic? really? lol

[@Kirkules44]

Worth it

[@MrOrtmeier]

I did not realise Apple started work on A4 at the same time they introduced iPhone. Impressive.